This is the third session of Training in Anthroposophic Medicine, a free webinar course.

Click here to register for the webinar.

For full details regarding the webinar course, please visit the Webinar page.

Click here to register now.

Certificate of Course Completion offered

Webinar recordings and notes available beginning May 1^st.

We are proud to announce a webinar series that will allow participants to expand their knowledge of Anthroposophical Medicine. Although open to all with the interest in the topic, the course is mainly geared toward practicing therapists. As it develops month after month, we hope to satisfy the needs of both beginners and of those with more advanced experience.

For full details, please visit the webinar page.

Contact webinar@truebotanicafoundation.org with any questions.

Achieving Comprehensive Health with Anthroposophic Medicine

Presented by: Dr. Razvan “Ross” Rentea

March 22-24

Location: Starflower Essentials – Sarasota, FL

The True Botanica Foundation invites you to attend this weekend workshop where both general principles and very specific suggestions will be given on how to enhance our well being on a physical and spiritual level.

Space is limited.

To reserve a seat, call 941-554-4292

Workshop Fee: $25.00

We Hope to see you there!

Click here for full program brochure

The True Botanica Foundation Team

Our physicians would be happy to come to your community and offer workshops and training. Let us know if your community would like to learn more about anthroposophical medicine or other anthroposophically related topics!

Please contact info@truebotanicafoundation.org or call 262-912-0970 ext. 6 with any questions about the True Botanica Foundation.

Dear Friends,

After spending a day of Thanks and two days of spending, today is Charitable Giving Tuesday.

We want to describe to you a project that we cannot do alone. We are hoping for community help.

We are a not for profit foundation, essentially dedicated to  building a laboratory exclusively designed for research in natural medicine.

Much progress has already been made and you can find a lot of information on the Research page.

Three licensed physicians are devoting their time to this project (and may we add, on a voluntary basis).

Our co-workers are heartfelt, wonderful people.

But we cannot continue this impulse just on our own.

WOULD YOU PLEASE HELP!

Every dollar counts and is appreciated.  All donations are tax deductable.

The need for such a lab is tremendous! It benefits everybody!

Click here to find out more about the lab and learn how YOU can help us reach our fundraising target! 

Gratefully yours,

For the True Botanica Foundation

Razvan “Ross” Rentea MD, Mark Kamsler MD

Dear Friends,

We want to describe to you a project that we cannot do alone. We are hoping for community help.

Anthroposophic, homeopathic and for that matter of fact all natural health fields suffer of one overwhelming deficiency: no research laboratory in which basic questions of natural medicine can be investigated in an effective, cost efficient, affordable manner.

Such research should ideally show the working of spiritual forces in the physical world.

We are ready to build such a lab!

Click here to find out more about the lab and learn how YOU can help us reach our fundraising target! 

Gratefully yours,

The True Botanica Foundation

The early bird discount on registration for the October conference

runs out Sunday, July 15^th!

“Anthroposophy and Homeopathy:

Successful Use of High Dilution Remedies in Everyday Practice”

October 19th – 21st in Chicago, IL.

We are very excited about this year’s conference, especially with its approved 12.5 CME’s for virtually all health professionals. The conference is geared primarily to therapists but other interested professionals, visitors and friends will find the content stimulating also and are welcomed to register too.

For full information go to, please visit the Conference Event page.

We hope to see you there!!!

My name is Virginia and I am 8 years old.

Some of my friends say that we can always tell the whole truth in the USA. Is that so?

My Papa says, “Write the guys at the True Botanica company. (But I have also decided to write to the TB Foundation). See what they say. They always tell the whole truth”. (I don’t know why but then he had a hearty laugh.)

So I am writing to you: Please tell me: Can I always tell the truth in the USA?

Dear Virginia,

It’s confusing out there and your friends are both right and wrong. Let me explain.

First of all, you can, and you should, always, and I mean always, be honest and truthful with yourself.

Secondly you can, and you should, tell people around you the truth but only to the extent to which they can take it. While you do that help them to grow strong enough to tolerate the whole truth in due time. After all that’s what God does with us.

Then, if you keep all that in mind, when you are in public pretty much you can tell the truth as long as you are not in the business of manufacturing natural supplements.

You see, for example, if you are a manufacturer of a wonderful product containing berberine you cannot say that it may help people in the managing of diabetes – even though it is the truth. Dozens upon dozens of studies have shown that this natural plant extract does just that, but you cannot say it. Why? Because under an antiquated law only “drugs” can improve, or “mitigate” illnesses and in order for a substance to become a drug you need to spend millions of dollars in order to get it approved by the Food and Drug  (FDA) administration.

Here is another example. If you are producing a bag of tart cherries you cannot say on the same page where you display the product that tart cherries have been shown to lower uric acid levels and help with gout because that would make the tart cherries an “unapproved drug” and selling them as such can land you in jail.

We and many companies like us encounter this problem every day and you and your parents suffer because of it. We will never lie to you but we cannot tell you the whole truth either, which is that our ingredients are based on research that proves that they are effective in certain disease states.

I know that this is nonsense Virginia but the government has determined that we should only list our products and then instead of telling you right then and there what the research shows about those items we should let you hunt around the internet on your own in order to find out more details about them. This way instead of having licensed physicians (in our case) present carefully screened and balanced material you may then get the opinions of real quacks and the very snake oil peddlers that the government is trying to protect you from.

The problem is, Virginia, that the Supreme Court recently determined that you can even lie in some fields because freedom of speech needs to be safeguarded. If you lie about having earned military honors it may be annoying to your friends and neighbors but you are not going to have the government come after you and maybe put you in jail. But the Supreme Court has not gotten around to determining that under the First Amendment you can tell the truth in the supplement manufacturing field.

Sadly Virginia there are many powerful groups in the natural and food industry that fight to make sure those bad laws get followed by everybody and thus supposedly we create an “even playing field.” We should concentrate more on changing the bad laws rather than worrying about how to make them manageable. Otherwise it would be same as arguing which is the most humane way to treat slaves. Let’s abolish slavery!

Maybe you can ask your parents to help us do something about it.

Have a Wonderful 4^th of July!

Razvan “Ross” Rentea MD

P.S. Since in our country, by and large, freedom of speech is protected, be careful, since people may not always be truthful with you. Watch out what comes at you. If say, in 20 years from now people tell you that you are really thin you should first look in the mirror before taking their word for it.

And one more thing. I think it was your great – grandmother that asked the editor of the New York Sun back in 1897 whether there is a Santa Claus. Virginia, I agree with him that yes, there is a Santa Claus, and totally honest freedom of speech, where you can tell the whole truth, lives in the same place of the loving heart that Santa Claus lives in.

Again Happy 4^th of July.

Dear Friends, Dear Readers,

Whether you celebrate Easter, or Passover, or just even the enduring capacity of the human race to carry Higher Ideals (a Mystery in itself), this is the time of the year when we can feel a resurgence of inner power, a sense that Life will continue and the Good will overcome.

We feel ourselves attracted to the outside, luminous, greening world of nature and from this surrounding World we feel mysteriously how a renewed strength is given to carry us forward.

This is a mighty impulse that should last the whole year until the next Spring – but does it?

All too often just reading the daily paper can be depressing and nearly sap us of the will to go on fighting for what we really believe in. Complacency sets in.

And here, yet again Rudolf Steiner steps in to give us a means to strengthen ourselves in our daily tasks!

Starting literally a hundred years ago he introduced a so called Calendar of the Soul where week for week a verse is revealed that captures the deep currents of the human spirit that want to emerge in connection with nature. They help us to “keep the faith alive”; they help us stay united with the strength giving forces that started us going in this Spring Moment.

What Power for our work might result from re-establishing a harmony and awareness with the cosmic and earthly rhythms!

You can find these verses, in a new translation, in the Resource section of the website. Some of the verses take a little pondering and meditating to penetrate their meaning, but we can assure you that the results are well worth the effort. They give an astonishing guide in life and enhance both the ability to achieve a deeper inner peace and also awaken creativity for finding the best way to master weekly and daily tasks, in business, in private life and more. These are really verses inspired from the Heights.

To access the Calendar on a weekly basis you need to make a donation of just $10 in order to go to the members section. Absolutely all the money goes to further the much needed research and education in holistic/anthroposophical medicine. All who donate will receive regular updates in the work of the Foundation.

But, don’t worry; if you do not have the necessary means just email us until April 15, 2012 at info@truebotanicafoundation.org  and we will gladly give you a free entry code.

Thank you to all who follow us and read this. Your presence means more than you can imagine!

For the entire Team at True Botanica

(who were the ones to ask me to write something for this week, so praise them for the impulse…. But, of course, blame me for the content)

In Spring mood,

Joyfully yours,

Ross Rentea MD

P.S. According to Rudolf Steiner the Death on the Cross, the so called Mystery of Golgotha, took place on April 3rd, at 3 PM of the year 33 AD.

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Hope is a state of the mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don’t, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.”

(Vaclav Havel)

Our best wishes to all

Happy New Year

Dr. Ross Rentea and the True Botanica Team

The roots of this plant grow even thicker as the plant matures.

Extracts of the Pelargonium root have been used in traditional South African folk heaing against upper respiratory infections, coughs, tuberculosis and gastrointestinal complaints. More recently, however, controlled, clinical studies in Europe have shown that these extracts help relieve the unpleasant symptoms associated with colds and flus, speed up recovery time, have an excellent safety profile and assist in decreasing the duration and severity of bronchitis.

But how exactly, you ask, does it do that? Research has shown that Pelargonium accelerates ciliary beat frequency. Ciliary play an important role in moving mucous out of the body. In this way, Pelargonium extracts assist in the body’s defense of the mucociliary system.

Want to learn more about how and why Pelargonium provides exceptional immune support? Check out this article on Pelargonium sidoides root extracts. You can also read extensive research articles on Pelargonium and other unique ingredients. You can also view the webinar by visiting the webinar section of the website.